What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

We wait always for something that does not come.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.